He wants to be put to death now so that he can at last claim, as he intended to do the night of his jihad massacre, the Qur’an’s promise of Paradise to those who “kill and are killed” for Allah (9:111).
Note how Masharipov conflates the actions of Western governments with Christians and Christianity. No amount of “dialogue” by bemused Catholic authorities would ever have slaked his thirst for revenge.
“Istanbul nightclub attacker asks to be given death penalty: Report,” Hürriyet Daily News, February 13, 2017 (thanks to Fjordman):
An Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militant who attacked a famous nightclub at the heart of Istanbul has reportedly asked to be given a death sentence in his testimony.
Uzbek-origin Abdulkadir Masharipov, who killed 39 people and wounded 65 others, said that “it would be good if he was given capital punishment,” daily Sabah reported on Feb. 13.
During his testimony, Masharipov said he was a member of ISIL but had not participated in any attacks by the jihadist organization before the Reina attack.
“I wanted to stage the attack on Christians in order to exact revenge on them for their acts committed all over the world. My aim was to kill Christians. Abu Cihad, who is in Syria, told me to carry out the attack in Taksim, saying ‘Christians are gathering in Taksim,’” Masharipov said, adding that he could not stage the attack in Taksim due to strict security measures.
“There were police officers everywhere. I changed my mind. I called Abu Cihad and told him that I can’t carry out the attack there. Then I went to scope out Reina. Abu Cihad sent me the address and photos of Reina. I constantly texted him. I didn’t see him face-to-face. I went in front of Reina and there were no police officers or security,” he said.
Noting that he wanted to kill himself after staging the attack, Masharipov said he was planning to do so in order not to “fall hostage.”
“When I was out of bullets, I threw two stun grenades. I put the third one near my face to commit suicide, but I didn’t die. I survived, but I entered Reina to die,” he said, adding that he did not regret his actions.
“I took vengeance,” he said.
At least 39 people, including a police officer, were killed when Masharipov opened fire on New Year’s revelers in the nightclub in the Ortaköy neighborhood at about 1:15 a.m. on Jan. 1….

Malcolm (SouthAfria) says
Islam is not a religion, it is an ideology that created a paradise for cowardly murderers and rapist.
Rev. Nancy Korb says
Muslim men are lazy and use their “religion” which is in reality their army, to give them an excuse for NEVER having to work, for raping women and calling it religion, living from Americans, but oh my, don’t ask them to work. They are lazy, nasty, sexualized murderers who see that they don’t have any reason to move if they don’t have to. Well, in America, men have to work to eat or to have a place to live. You have hereby been warned. Taxpayers no longer pay your bills. Go back to Islam if you want to live your way.
Eur says
Completely true. Religion is the excuse, the vagrancy of Muslims is tremendous, the more vague the more religious. It is the way that their community sees them as valid members. Just by praying, going to the mosque and being orthodox is enough. No need to add value.
mortimer says
‘Deen’ should not be, though it is, translated into English as simply ‘religion’. ‘Deen’ from the root word for judgement or law or governance refers to the GOVERNMENTAL SYSTEM of Islam of which ‘religion’ is an integral and indivisible part. Muslims are not permitted by Sharia to separate mosque and state. Sharia law is always above the national constitution in the minds of most Muslims.
Their loyalty to Sharia is required first and foremost. Sharia overrules any manmade law.
Muslims ironically refuse to see or admit that Sharia is manmade law that did not exist for Mohammed.
Somebody says
ISIS acts according to quran, even execution orders are given from related quran’ verses. We need to stop them.
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mortimer says
RETRIBUTION and VENGEANCE are an integral part of Islam, rather than an aberration.
-K.11.173 “Believers, retaliation is decreed for you in bloodshed.”
-K.2.178 “O you who believe! Retaliation is prescribed for you in the matter of the slain.”
-“The reprisal against those who wage war on Allah and His Messenger, and go about the earth corrupting it, is that they should be killed or crucified, or have their alternate hands and feet cut off, or be banished from the land.” (K.5:33) Waging war against Allah is rejecting Him.”–Tafsir of Imam al-Bukhari
-Imam AbdulLatif ibn AbdurRahman rahimullah said, “It is not possible for someone to realize Tawheed and act upon it, and yet not be hostile against the mushrikeen. So anyone who isn’t hostile against the mushrikeen, then it can’t be said that he acts upon Tawheed, nor that he realizes it.” [ad-Durar as-Saniyyah 8/167]
mortimer says
This was a life-style jihad. Americans and Europeans can expect more and more life-style jihads directed at night clubs and churches, dances and music concerts.
1reader says
I am a Christian and I will personally escort him to Hell, even if it means I have to spend a 1000 years babysitting him there.
JIMJFOX says
Really? What happened to “Love thine enemy” & “turn the other cheek?”
All religious people are both whackos and deranged to some degree…
Angemon says
A mindless, clockwork murderer – just wind him up and point him in the desired direction. Isn’t the islamic religion a boon to Mankind?… /sarc. off
JIMJFOX says
Of course, to accord him the proper halal death his throat must be cut taking care not to sever the spinal cord and let him bleed out.
Malcolm (SouthAfria) says
That is bizarre, are you a unhinged atheist?
Allan says
How is it bizarre to make a Muhammadist live by its own values until dead?
Walter Sieruk says
First, that this jihad -minded Muslim admitted that his “aim was to kill Christians” should be of no real surprise to anyone who has the basic knowledge about he actual essence of Islam wit its violent and deadly militant jihad. As Brigitte Gabriel had explained in her book which is entitled BECAUSE THEY HATE she revealed that in the Middle East there is a saying which is “First comes Saturday and then comes Sunday.” Meaning “First destroy the Jews and then destroy the Christians ” it sure looks like that Muslim jihadist had become rather impatient for Saturday to be over ,so he then skipped Saturday and then went straight to Sunday.
Second, there are many Muslims who strongly dislike Christians. Some Muslims even hate Christians so much that they even become violence against them and burn their Bibles. One reason for this is that in the mosques and madrasas the Muslim clerics, as the imams who speak many awful and unproven terrible things against Christians and Christian doctrine. So much so the many Muslims get all worked up against Christians and Christian teachings and some those Muslims commit violent actions against Christians. Such false religious teachers, as those Muslim clerics, who speak to people unfounded and invalid evil things about Christians and Christian doctrines have been described in the Bible. For the Bible informs the reader in Second Peter 2:12. “They speak evil of things they do not understand, and will utterly perish in their own corruption.” [N.K.J.V.]
It also should be make clear that in this specific above Bible verse, as well as in John 3:16. The word “Perish” does not mean loss of being but loss of well-being. As in going to ruin by ending up in languishing in torment in a terrible place of suffering that the Bible calls hell. Luke 16:19-31.
abad says
Pure evil in those Muslim eyes.
Not human at all.
gravenimage says
Istanbul nightclub jihad attacker: “My aim was to kill Christians”
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Mainstream Islam.
Also the assumption that anyone celebrating the New Year was a Christian–either that, or a bad Muslim who also deserved to die.
Rosie says
Of course he wants the death penalty. How else is he going to get his 72 virgins?
Milo says
Grant his wish and execute him but first, wrap him in bacon.